Undersea noise levels are increasing in the Pacific Northwest, as thousands of freighters, ferries and other vessels motor up and down the coast. Some new research details how all that noise might make life harder for endangered marine mammals.

Either nonprofits are fully businesses, with all the rights that entails, says this Seattle nonprofit leader, "or else we are beautiful and complex snowflakes of equity and justice and need different considerations." But stop judging the sector by the standards of business when it doesn't get many of the benefits of the for-profit sector.

President Barack Obama is traveling in Alaska, the base for any effort by the US to have a larger presence in the Arctic. One to-do on his bucket list is to make sure the US has more than just two working icebreakers in the region. Russia currently owns 40 functioning icebreakers with 11 more in the works.

A design show featuring poster artists from Seattle, Havana and Tehran opens Labor Day weekend at the Bumbershoot Festival. The show will later travel to Tehran and then Havana. The curators have jokingly titled the collection of posters, the “SHT show” because, they write, when the get together it’s fun — "no politics, no prejudices — just an appreciation of our common interests."

There's been a lot of water cooler discussion this week about Amazon and The New York Times' investigative piece chronicling a brutally competitive work environment at the retail giant. Amazon is based in Seattle. But it operates in 32 nations. Would those demanding conditions work in its other locations?

Glaciers are key contributors to drinking water supplies, hydropower generation and salmon survival in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists aren’t sure exactly when the glaciers will disappear. It could be within a few decades. It has been 4,000 years since the glaciers have receded this much.

What it’s like for kids to understand that some of their friends live in the US “without papers”? A Seattle boy named Ronan found out when his best friend told him that he was in the United States without legal status.

Primetime dramas in South Korea — known as K-Dramas — are filled with implausible story lines, complete with romantic twists and turns. They’ve been popular in Asia for years, but thanks to online streaming websites, they’re now gaining a cult-like following in the US.

Nearly three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, many consumers in the US remain concerned about radiation in fish from the Pacific Ocean. One Seattle fisherman finally got his fish tested, and found what many scientists have also found: there's nothing to worry about.

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China has a population imbalance, with more than 20 million more men under 30 than women. And yet, there are a number of women who are choosing not to get married. China says they're the country's most desirable women, so the country is pushing hard to convince them to hurry up and wed.

What it’s like for kids to understand that some of their friends live in the US “without papers”? A Seattle boy named Ronan found out when his best friend told him that he was in the United States without legal status.

Either nonprofits are fully businesses, with all the rights that entails, says this Seattle nonprofit leader, "or else we are beautiful and complex snowflakes of equity and justice and need different considerations." But stop judging the sector by the standards of business when it doesn't get many of the benefits of the for-profit sector.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu riffs on racism, anti-immigrant sentiments and the woes of being a person of color in the US on his first comedy album "Waiting for 2042." Yes, that's the year the US will be a majority-minority nation, according to the Census.